For my portrayal of the Andorians in this and other novels, I am indebted to sources including the novel Andor: Paradigm by Heather Jarman (appearing in Worlds of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Volume One), the Enterprise episode “Proving Ground” (written by Chris Black) for the layout of the Kumari-class bridge, and the Enterprise novel The Romulan War: Beneath the Raptor’s Wing by Michael A. Martin for information contributing to my interpretation of the Andorian calendar. (In case you’re wondering, an Andorian phase is 28.14 hours long, so a centiphase is just under 17 minutes and a milliphase is 101 seconds.)
I’m especially indebted to my good friend Keith R.A. DeCandido for his contributions to the Klingon material portrayed herein. Certain events depicted in this novel, specifically the assassination of Chancellor M’Rek and its aftermath, the conflict over Ardan IV, and Captain Worik’s role in that conflict, were conceived by Keith for his book The Klingon Art of War, and are dramatized here with his blessing. He also provided helpful advice and consultation for the Klingon portions of the book, and the character of Ja’rod, son of Duras, was his suggestion. (This is not the same Ja’rod who betrayed Worf’s father in Star Trek: The Next Generation, but a namesake ancestor, like Duras himself.) His novel Star Trek: The Lost Era—The Art of the Impossible provided guidance on the Klingon Rite of Succession, while his novella “The Unhappy Ones” in Star Trek: Seven Deadly Sins provided information on the ancestry of the House of Mur’Eq, including the existence of Kor, father of Rynar (and grandfather of the canonical Kor played by John Colicos).
Chancellor M’Rek was established in Star Trek: Enterprise: “The Expanse,” written by Rick Berman & Brannon Braga. Doctor Antaak (John Schuck), Fleet Admiral Krell (Wayne Grace), General K’Vagh (James Avery), and Marab (Terrell Tilford) are from Star Trek: Enterprise: “Affliction,” teleplay by Mike Sussman, story by Manny Coto, and “Divergence,” written by Judith Reeves-Stevens & Garfield Reeves-Stevens. Laneth (Kristin Bauer) is from “Divergence.” Korok (Robertson Dean) is from Star Trek: Enterprise: “Marauders,” teleplay by David Wilcox, story by Rick Berman & Brannon Braga. The Mempa system and sector were established in Star Trek: The Next Generation: “Redemption, Part I” and “Redemption, Part II,” written by Ronald D. Moore. Details about the specific planets in the system come from “The Unhappy Ones” and from Excelsior: Forged in Fire by Michael A. Martin and Andy Mangels. The latter novel provided additional information about Kor’s House (therein called the House of Ngoj, but then, Klingon Houses frequently change their names), as well as details about Doctor Antaak’s later career.
The class name Tajtiq for the fighter used by Laneth in “Divergence” is my own coinage based on a weapon name from The Klingon Art of War. The Raptor class is from Enterprise: “Sleeping Dogs,” written by Fred Dekker. Though it was not identified therein as a Bird-of-Prey, its design was similar, and its twelve-person complement matched the description of Worik’s Bird-of-Prey in The Klingon Art of War. The term qa’vIn for Klingon coffee, and its backstory as a modification of the human beverage, comes from Star Trek: Klingon for the Galactic Traveler by Marc Okrand. Thanks to TrekBBS poster “loghaD” for pointing this out to me.
The full name of Doctor Phlox, Phloxx-tunnai-oortann, was given in the Enterprise writers’ bible, though it was never used onscreen. Mettus and the Antarans were established in Enterprise: “The Breach,” teleplay by Chris Black & John Shiban, story by Daniel McCarthy. Other information about Phlox’s family comes largely from Enterprise episodes written by Rick Berman & Brannon Braga, including “A Night in Sickbay,” which elaborated on the size and structure of Phlox’s family; “Stigma,” which introduced Feezal (Melinda Page Hamilton) and named Vesena and Groznik as a contentious married couple; and “Zero Hour,” which established that Groznik and Phlox’s first wife had a child together. Though Vesena was not explicitly identified with Phlox’s first wife, it seems likely to me given the dialogue in the two episodes. The suggestion that bisexuality is normative for Denobulans, including Phlox, came from John Billingsley in an article for Dreamwatch #123 (Titan Magazines, December 2004).
The idea of methane-based cold-planet life based on complex lipids in place of proteins (the Nierl) and that of hot-planet life based on fluorocarbons in liquid sulfur (the Xavoth) were both proposed by Isaac Asimov in his classic essay “Not As We Know It,” from the September 1961 issue of The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. The term “azotosome” for a nitrogen-based cell membrane viable in a methane solvent was coined in the paper “Membrane alternatives in worlds without oxygen: Creation of an azotosome” by James Stevenson, Jonathan Lunine, and Paulette Clancy in Science Advances 27 Feb 2015: Vol. 1 no. 1 e1400067.
The destruction of Theta Cygni XII was established and explained in Star Trek: “Operation: Annihilate!” written by Steven W. Carabatsos. The Marshall-class starships first appeared in the Star Trek Spaceflight Chronology by Stan and Fred Goldstein, and were designed by Rick Sternbach. The Ceres class was proposed by the Advanced Starship Design Bureau’s Journal of Applied Treknology site and designed by Alan E. Baker. I have interpreted the specifics of the class somewhat differently, the better to fit the continuity of the novels. The Poseidon class is from the video game Star Trek: Legacy. The Andorian starship Atlirith is the namesake of an Interstellar Guard ship from the alternate timeline depicted in Star Trek: Myriad Universes—The Tears of Eridanus by Steve Mollmann and Michael Schuster. The Guidon Pontificate comes from The Tears of Eridanus and the same authors’ “Meet With Triumph and Disaster” in Star Trek: The Next Generation—The Sky’s the Limit.
About the Author
CHRISTOPHER L. BENNETT is a lifelong resident of Cincinnati, Ohio, with bachelor’s degrees in physics and history from the University of Cincinnati. He has written such critically acclaimed Star Trek novels as Ex Machina and The Buried Age; the Star Trek: Titan novels Orion’s Hounds and Over a Torrent Sea; the Department of Temporal Investigations series, including the novels Watching the Clock and Forgotten History and the novellas The Collectors and Time Lock; and the Enterprise: Rise of the Federation series, whose previous volumes include A Choice of Futures, Tower of Babel, and Uncertain Logic. His shorter works include stories in the anniversary anthologies Constellations, The Sky’s the Limit, Prophecy and Change, and Distant Shores. Beyond Star Trek, he has penned the novels X-Men: Watchers on the Walls and Spider-Man: Drowned in Thunder. His original work includes the hard science fiction superhero novel Only Superhuman, as well as several novelettes in Analog and other science fiction magazines, several of which have been compiled in the e-book collection Hub Space: Tales from the Greater Galaxy. More information and annotations, plus the author’s blog, can be found at christopherlbennett.wordpress.com.
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